IBM, which currently leads the blade server market, has been frantically working to forge new alliances around blade technology. Its rationale, quite sensibly, is to target other market leaders.
Last month the company focused on networking by announcing a wide-ranging alliance with Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) centered on blade servers and on-demand computing (see Unknown Document 52422 and Cisco, IBM Bless Blades).
As part of that deal, Cisco announced that it's building a switch for IBMs BladeCenter product, as well as joining forces with IBM in on-demand computing.
Both IBM and Brocade refused to comment on this story when they were approached by NDCF, so watch this space for more blade server news from N+I next week.
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